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13 Working with Web Technologies
In this chapter you will find commands you can use to
configure and manage web services and web components of
your server.
Web technologies in Mac OS X Server consist of several components that provide a
flexible and scalable server environment. This chapter covers the commands that are
used to configure and manage these web technologies.
Understanding Web Technology
Apple’s web services are based primarily on Apache. Apache is one of the most popular
and versatile web servers, and is a community-based, open-source project. Apple has
extended Apache in a number of ways to implement Mac OS X–specific features.
Mac OS X Server includes two versions of the Apache HTTP Server:
 Version 1.3—This is the officially supported version on Mac OS X Server. It is a well-
tested, stable, and reliable software package that has been used worldwide for many
years. In this chapter, references to the Apache server refer to this version.
 Version 2.0—An evaluation version that includes several new features, including
multithreading and an improved API for plug-in modules. However, the API changes
make many third-party modules incompatible with this version.
The locations of Apache 1.3 files on Mac OS X Server are slightly different from the
default Apache installation. The following table identifies the major folders.
Files Location
Application binaries
/usr/sbin
CGI applications /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables
Configuration files /etc/httpd/conf
Default documents /Library/WebServer/Documents
Log files /var/log/httpd
Loadable modules /usr/libexec/httpd